IN a recent paper, DeGroot and Tolhoek 1 have attempted, by means of an application of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, to extend Guggenheim's 2 ideas concerning the activities of ions ...

THERMODYNAMICS is one of the most successful theories of matter ever constructed. There are no known violations of the theory for the description of macroscopic systems for which it was devised. But ...

In 1961 Rolf Landauer linked information and thermodynamic entropy by showing that erasing or combining bits of memory must be accompanied by an increase in entropy. For the first time since then, a ...

Thermodynamics as a research area investigates the fundamental laws governing energy, entropy, and the macroscopic behavior of physical systems at or near equilibrium, and their extensions to ...

International Review of Modern Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 121-129 (9 pages) The thermodynamics of open systems may be applied to social events and social development. In this paper, ...

In the loop: PhD student Monika Monika takes a closer look at the negative-temperature experimental setup in Jena. (Courtesy: Ira Winkler/University Jena) Researchers in Germany and the US have ...